On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > My question :- > > > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? > > > > If both drives are the same size > > > > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 > will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It will get everything (making a copy of the physical disk surface). Due to the fact that your machine didn't boot but data is available, I'd think your old HDD isn't corrupted but the partition for /boot or the MBR itself. Try to setup grub for your old HDD too. Maybe you'll have a HDD more now. ;) Just a thought Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
